From kde-devel  Mon Oct 20 22:28:05 2008
From: Michael Howell <mhowell123 () gmail ! com>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:28:05 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: resurrecting kwrited
Message-Id: <200810201528.11028.mhowell123 () gmail ! com>
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On Monday 20 October 2008 01:30:34 Oswald Buddenhagen=20
wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 01:12:56PM +0300, George=20
Kiagiadakis wrote:
> > 2008/10/17, Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>:
> > > you are the kwrited maintainer now. get
> > >  yourself an svn account to fulfill that role. :D
> >
> > Are you sure that would be the right thing to do?
>
> sure. :D
>
> > Anyway, I am sending the full patch against kdebase for=20
last minute
> > review. If anyone has any objections, tell me.
>
> the utempter test is duplicated, which is just ugly.
>
> i think the entire kwrited should be factored out from=20
konsole - it is
> there only for historical reasons. probably it should be=20
kicked from
> kdebase and moved to kdeutils or so.
Personally, I vote kdebase/workspace, since it's part of the=20
desktop experience and doesn't really count as a utility.
>
> > 1) The kwrited executable (if built as an executable) is=20
setgid to the
> > utmp group. I am not sure if all distros that do not ship=20
libutempter
> > use this group for /var/run/utmp and /var/log/wtmp. At=20
least debian
> > does.
>
> given that debian (+ derivatives) is probably the only distri=20
not
> shipping utempter ... :D
> anyway, i think this group is fairly standard. if not, then=20
somebody
> will have to introduce a check and a variable to make it=20
work on his
> system.
>
> > 2) This commit introduces a new .desktop file
> > (kwrited-noutempter.desktop). As this is a modified copy=20
of the
> > already existing kwrited.desktop, it already includes the=20
translated
> > strings. Is that ok?
>
> i think so.
>
> > Also, I am unsure if the commands in that desktop
> > file are correct (although they do work for me). This=20
desktop file is
> > supposed to be installed in ${AUTOSTART_INSTALL_DIR}=20
to start kwrited
> > by default on startup. The commands are somehow=20
based on
> > ${AUTOSTART_INSTALL_DIR}/krunner.desktop
>
> uhm ... no idea. does it work? :D

=2D-=20
Michael Howell
mhowell123@gmail.com

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